but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, going back from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,

And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day;